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Mobileye, the Israeli company that, until earlier this week provided the EyeQ system-on-a-chip at the heart of Tesla's Autopilot system, has criticised the electric car maker's approach to safety in its vehicles' semi-autonomous driving modes (The Guardian). Mobileye CTO Amnon Shashua said that Tesla was "pushing the envelope in terms of safety" by its representation of the system and by allowing users to keep their hands off the steering wheel for up to three minutes. Tesla responded by saying that the break was fuelled by Tesla's development of its own vision system for future implementations of Autopilot and said that the Mobileye "attempted to force Tesla to discontinue this development, pay them more and use their products in future hardware."

The USA's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has revealed its preliminary figures for the annual low-point of Arctic sea ice coverage, and says that levels are set to match those of 2007, the year with the second-lowest ice coverage on record (Science Daily). More significant than an individual year's relative standing in the record books is the general trend of ice levels. Nasa observes that "September Arctic sea ice is now declining at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade, relative to the 1981 to 2010 average." NSIDC emphasises that the current ice extent figures, dated to September 10, are preliminary and that "changing winds or late-season melt could still reduce the Arctic ice extent, as happened in 2005 and 2010."

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Oculus has finally added an optional feature that allows Rift VR users to connect their Facebook accounts to help them find friends (Ars Technica). However, the Facebook-Oculus integration is unusually intrusive, automatically adding everyone you know on Facebook to your Oculus friends list, whether you want them to be able to see you or not and, once you've connected your Facebook account, changing your username to your Facebook-mandated real name, according to terms and conditions shared on Reddit. These are dubious moves in terms of user privacy on the gaming platform and are likely to put many off the idea of linking their lives in VR to their lives on social media.

A new study has provided further data about the established relationship between Zika virus and instances of microcephaly in infants born to mothers infected during pregnancy (The Washington Post). The data comes from a case-controlled study by researchers in Brazil and the UK, which has so far compared 32 babies born with microcephaly to 62 born at the same time without the severe - and potentially fatal - birth defect. The study found that the babies with microcephaly were 55 times more likely to have been infected with Zika in the womb.

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President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, announced in his annual State of the Union address that the EU intends to fully deploy 5G mobile networks across its member states by 2025, saying that "this has the potential to create a further two million jobs in the EU" (WIRED). He also said that "we propose today to equip every European village and every city with free wireless internet access around the main centres of public life by 2020." Following the vote to leave the EU, it's unclear whether either 5G or free public Wi-Fi would be extended to the UK.

Scientists from the University of Bristol have published a detailed study describing their accurately-coloured reconstruction of a dog-sized ornithischian Psittacosaurus dinosaur (Popular Science). The beaked dinosaur lived about 100 million years ago, during the early Cretaceous period, in what is now Asia and, the reconstruction has shown, was eminently well designed for forest camouflage. The team was able to emphasise and analyse the colouration of the extremely well-preserved fossil specimen by viewing it under polarised light, aided by calcium phosphate residue found in the creature's preserved scales.

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Popular porn sites Pornhub and YouPorn, two of the largest in the world, have been banned by Russian watchdog Roskomnadzor, known in translation as the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (The Independent). Pornhub has previously been banned and unblocked in Russia, in September 2015. The watchdog suggested on Twitter that disappointed users could instead "meet someone in real life."

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Kickstarter-funded hit RPG sequel Divinity: Original Sin 2 has been released into Steam Early Access, less than a year after the completion of its successful crowdfunding campaign (RockPaperShotgun). Priced at £29.99, the top-down isometric RPG currently lets early bird users access the campaign's first act, estimated at eight to 12 hours of gameplay, provides online co-op for up to four players and "four playable races: Human, Elf, Dwarf, and Lizard." Developer Larian Studios says that the full version of the game will be out in 2017 and notes that "it only makes sense to play an Early Access game if, for instance, you want to support the development of the game, you want to help development with your feedback or if you want to get a taste of things to come."

Head of Niantic Labs, John Hanke, has spoken about the company's future plans for Pokémon Go, including Pokémon trading, live tournaments involving thousands of people and the ability to directly battle with other players (VentureBeat). However, Niantic is currently still attempting to complete the game's global rollout and keep on top of existing users' needs. Hanke said that "battling is something we talk a lot about. It’ll probably make its way onto the road map, but I don’t have a specific date."

Hardcore Japanese action RPG Monster Hunter is heading for the big screen, with a Hollywood movie in the works (WIRED). The announcement came after Capcom revealed a new trailer for Monster Hunter Stories. As the name suggests, this is a more narrative driven spin-off to the usually plot-lite core games, but despite establishing more of a story to adapt, it won't influence the planned film. When Monster Hunter series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto announced the western movie, he said: "while it isn't related to Stories, there is a Hollywood movie adaptation of the main series in progress."

Earlier this week, Sony pushed out a major update to its PlayStation 4 console. Among the standout new features were the addition of High Dynamic Range (HDR), a new UI, folders, and remote play in anticipation of the release of the PS4 Pro in November. You can update the system software of the PS4 system in three ways: over the internet by using your PS4 system's network update feature, using an update file contained on a game disc, or on a computer. WIRED takes you through the details.

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